>nice to see mike ain't in total denial about
>photos (although he is still acting like the back cover (feet)
>is the front cover.) so he included some photos of what seems
>like 1981 era photos instead of 1979 (back cover is of him
>behind the same wall in a tux and loafers (he aint rock
>loafers on orignal off the wall cover, he rocked patent
>leather shoes) with a heavier ''rock with you'' era shag/jheri
>curl (off the wall cover was last days of afro). still nice to
>see mike give some photo's up from that era.

and this part sticking out the most.

For reference, ?uest is talking about this: http://images.coveralia.com/audio/m/Michael_Jackson-Off_The_Wall_%28Special_Edition%29-Trasera.jpg

definitely not what was on the cover. for a kid who grew up remembering what Mike looked like mostly from the tail end of this era ("She's Out Of My Life" video) and old foorage from the '70s, seeing that cover sometime in the '90s was a bit of a shock; it was disappointing that the cover I remember being shocked by was not what I saw when I finally got my own CD copy back in '97.

it wasn't until the Internet really started branching out some years later that I saw "The Cover" again. It's what's on my iPod:

http://www.soulstrut.com/images/uploads/reviews/michael-jackson-off-the-wall-original-cover.jpg

I'm glad that there are a lot of *real* Mike fans on the Internet that kept it alive after all these years.

there's one picture that Jet magazine ran with Mike and Latoya that when I saw it, really looked the least like "him" I've ever seen -- even including "The Last Days of East Asian Mike". I wonder if I can find it... *goes to Google*

http://love4mj.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/1980.jpg

Seeing it again, Mike does look more like himself here. Copied in B&W as Jet tended to do inside the magazine, it looked way off.

More than Mike, I can't believe Latoya went under the knife like that, she favored Jayne Kennedy back then.